Astartella minuta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AstartellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At least 5.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 264.28 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
3 occurrences of Astartella minuta on record, most of them in the Permian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
3 occurrences- Permian100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
3 formations
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The named rock units Astartella minuta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Astartella minuta and its relatives
PermianWhere Astartella minuta and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Entolium piriformis2 sites
- Astartella symmetrica1 site
- Aviculopecten1 site
- Cathaysia xiaojiangensis1 site
- Claraia shabaonica1 site
- Claraioides dianus1 site
- Claraioides primitivus1 site
- Crenipecten1 site
- Dystactella biarmica1 site
- Edmondia1 site
- Edmondia nebrascensis1 site
- Ensipteria radistriata1 site
- Euchondria1 site
- Euchondria cancellata1 site
- Guizhoupecten wangi1 site
- Haydenella yonganensis1 site
- Hunanopecten exilis1 site
- Hunanopecten qujiangensis1 site
- Liebea1 site
- Lingula1 site
- Nuculopsis darlingensis1 site
- Nuculopsis wymmensis1 site
- Nuculopsis yangtzeensis1 site
- Palaeolima1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Astartella minuta, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
3 references- Late Permian deep water strata and bivalves of south Guizhou1
- Permian bivalves from Ma Shi Chau, Hong Kong1
- Bivalvia1
Each of the 3 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Astartella minuta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Astartella minuta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Astartella minuta was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAstartella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhang 1977